Yannoulis Chalepas was a Greek sculptor whose mental illness shaped his raw yet brilliant masterpieces like the "Sleeping ...

Ancient Greek historians disagreed on the origin of the Etruscans, who deeply influenced the Ancient Romans and traded with the Greeks.

Ancient Carving Shows Greek God Besting Roman Hero in -- a Drinking Contest. Rebecca McPhee. Sun, June 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC. 2 min read. It seems that people 1,700 years ago enjoyed the same ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was ...

The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a larger slab erected at an Egyptian temple in 196 B.C.E., during the reign of Ptolemy V, a Ptolemaic king of Macedonian Greek ancestry.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh may have found the world’s oldest lunisolar calendar on the pillars of Gӧbekli Tepe, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic complex in Turkey, according to new research.